Used to fan at this station all the time back during the pandemic, love watching the through trains to Babylon fly by! Excellent captures Tim, glad you finally covered this station.
Thanks for the great video! Valley Stream was the place for train watching in the 1960s: double deckers, ping-pongs, P72s, Pullman Standard World’s Fair cars, M1s, ALCo C420s, freight trains pulled by ALCo RS1s and RS3s, and those rumbling Fairbanks-Morse locos. Sweet memories.
dude. just wanna tell you your stuff is great, like tony the tiger! i always watch the entire vid. wanted to relate to you a rail event i stumbled onto. been in and out of brooklyn for decades. i used to take hikes on staten Island plenty of times. like, i've walked over the (old) goethals bridge at least6a dozen times, into elizabeth, and (the location of the former elizabethport station, and right up to newark penn station. both ways, actually. once, i decided to walk over the bayonne bridge into jersey. i had some knowledge of the railroad infrastructure in that area. I knew (from hagstrom county map books) about the west 8th street station. this was around...1978 or so? whenever, when i made it to bayonne i saw a schedule posted on the still extant station building (even in the tattered state it was, you could still ses the remnants of the magnificent c.r.r.n.j.) that showed an impending train to at least elizabeth (may have terminated at roselle park...) conrail was the operator. well, it was a single (i think...may have been two) budd car. being a long-term railfan i knew, like "this was a cool thing". the car seemed to smell like the 1950's. not sure how i formulated that notion but that's how it seemed to me. so damn mad that I wasn't aware (much) of the four track newark bay bridge back then. i would have tried to scrutinize all the aspects of it better. oh well. at least i can rightfully state that 1. yep. i rode over that four track bridge in a classic budd car. 2. oh ues, and i can relate to travelers from a hundred years ago, having arrived on a westbound train at the lower level central rail road of new jersey city of elizabeth train station and walked upstairs to the manhattan bound pennsylvania railroad mainline train station. i've done lots of trips like that. transit intense. once, i rode a grayhound from atlantic city to 8th street philadelphia, patco to camden, riverline to trenton (actually, i jumped off the riverline at some point mid trip at some very rural spot, just to get a feel of how country folks experienced taking an interurban train at a cornfield stop. it was surrounded by woods and flat farmland so that was nice. it was extremely flat terrain, you could see the next approaching car from way off), nj transit to newark, path to world trade center, j train to supthin boulevard station, lirr to islip. good times. but like i said, completely enjoy your work.
One of my favorite Interlockings. VALLEY: LIRR's Far Rockaway, West Hempstead and Long Beach Branches merge west at Valley Stream Station. LIRR's Montauk Branch ricochets off of these other Branches east at Valley Stream Station.
Love your content, I'm amazed how you get around and travel so much, Sorry I missed you at my hometown station in Lansdowne, did you know that is regestered as a historical site ? Some fright comes through every once in a while, late at night when the commuters arn't running. Also please try and stay on top of the new Acela progress,, Thanks fo sharing !
Unrelated to LIRR but you've ridden Amtrak before, you might see HHP-8s as cab cars on certain trains soon. Probably on Keystone trains and any other trains that uses a metroliner cab car.
10:19 SAAHC + I caught Trains here back in August 3 2023, nice catches Tim
Valley Stream is my hometown. I became an ardent fan of the LIRR on this platform during the 1950s and 60s. Always loved the double deckers.
Used to fan at this station all the time back during the pandemic, love watching the through trains to Babylon fly by! Excellent captures Tim, glad you finally covered this station.
Excellent work. Will be added to the LIRR Railfanning playlist.
Great reminders of PRR days. I've been through this busy junction on a Far Rockaway trip.
Thanks Tim💚💚👌👌
Really like the Runway 22 arrivals at JFK from here and Rosedale!!!
Another spectacular video Tim!! Thoroughly enjoyed ;)
Thanks for the great video! Valley Stream was the place for train watching in the 1960s: double deckers, ping-pongs, P72s, Pullman Standard World’s Fair cars, M1s, ALCo C420s, freight trains pulled by ALCo RS1s and RS3s, and those rumbling Fairbanks-Morse locos. Sweet memories.
My hometown. Spent tons of time at that station.
dude. just wanna tell you your stuff is great, like tony the tiger! i always watch the entire vid.
wanted to relate to you a rail event i stumbled onto. been in and out of brooklyn for decades. i used to take hikes on staten Island plenty of times. like, i've walked over the (old) goethals bridge at least6a dozen times, into elizabeth, and (the location of the former elizabethport station, and right up to newark penn station. both ways, actually.
once, i decided to walk over the bayonne bridge into jersey. i had some knowledge of the railroad infrastructure in that area. I knew (from hagstrom county map books) about the west 8th street station. this was around...1978 or so? whenever, when i made it to bayonne i saw a schedule posted on the still extant station building (even in the tattered state it was, you could still ses the remnants of the magnificent c.r.r.n.j.) that showed an impending train to at least elizabeth (may have terminated at roselle park...) conrail was the operator.
well, it was a single (i think...may have been two) budd car. being a long-term railfan i knew, like "this was a cool thing".
the car seemed to smell like the 1950's. not sure how i formulated that notion but that's how it seemed to me.
so damn mad that I wasn't aware (much) of the four track newark bay bridge back then. i would have tried to scrutinize all the aspects of it better.
oh well. at least i can rightfully state that
1. yep. i rode over that four track bridge in a classic budd car.
2. oh ues, and i can relate to travelers from a hundred years ago, having arrived on a westbound train at the lower level central rail road of new jersey city of elizabeth train station and walked upstairs to the manhattan bound pennsylvania railroad mainline train station.
i've done lots of trips like that. transit intense. once, i rode a grayhound from atlantic city to 8th street philadelphia, patco to camden, riverline to trenton (actually, i jumped off the riverline at some point mid trip at some very rural spot, just to get a feel of how country folks experienced taking an interurban train at a cornfield stop. it was surrounded by woods and flat farmland so that was nice. it was extremely flat terrain, you could see the next approaching car from way off), nj transit to newark, path to world trade center, j train to supthin boulevard station, lirr to islip. good times.
but like i said, completely enjoy your work.
Lots of walking
You rode the way of HBLR about 30 years before when I rode on the HBLR.
One of my favorite Interlockings.
VALLEY: LIRR's Far Rockaway, West Hempstead and Long Beach Branches merge west at Valley Stream Station. LIRR's Montauk Branch ricochets off of these other Branches east at Valley Stream Station.
Love your content, I'm amazed how you get around and travel so much, Sorry I missed you at my hometown station in Lansdowne, did you know that is regestered as a historical site ? Some fright comes through every once in a while, late at night when the commuters arn't running. Also please try and stay on top of the new Acela progress,, Thanks fo sharing !
I want to see the Acela’s when they start running whenever that is. sometimes I feel I get around a little too much
Unrelated to LIRR but you've ridden Amtrak before, you might see HHP-8s as cab cars on certain trains soon. Probably on Keystone trains and any other trains that uses a metroliner cab car.
Some Babylon trains used to stop at Valley Stream back in the day
i also seem to recall that. probably around the time when the valley stream drive in theater was open.
@@ntrainride this was back in early 1990s
9:56 - Who is the saurkrout engineer? The operator sees the Horn Guy on this platform and gives an extra horn-toot.
Known him for years. He’s of German ancestry
14:40 - There is a gray stripe on the sides of these railcars. Did that gray stripe 'used to be' a yellow stripe?
19:45 - ..Is this because some other traffic now goes to Grand Central Terminal?
So are you a Montreal Canadians fan? My wife is an Isles fan while I'm a Ranger fan but we are now Preds fans here in Nashville, both via Brentwood ny
Like them and the Leafs. Mostly the Leafs. Isles are ok. Can’t stand the Rangers. People knock NS for that but it is what it is.
7:10 - ... these years ... When was NY Penn Station built, and when was the electric Northeast Corridor built?
Penn was built 1910. NY to Washington electrified in 1935
That train towards Speonk, did it originate from Jamaica or Penn Station?
Penn Station
Hey Tim trust me u travel to so many countries to railfan I’m suprized u never went to Japan
Love to go there
Who’s the Straight Outa Brooklyn engineer?
I used to call him the King of Queens engineer. I decided to change it to Brooklyn theme since that’s where he was born.
10:18